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Josh Campbell is a CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI supervisory special agent. The views expressed are his own. While it might be too early to label fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe a victim, there is without question one victim in this story: the American people, who have been left to form opinions without benefit of the facts. With all eyes on the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General and its forthcoming report on the conduct of FBI officials during the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, Justice leadership chose to act on a subset of the IG’s findings and fire McCabe without providing underlying details. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s firing met heated reactions from the right and left, with supporters ca...

(Evan Vucci/AP) THE MORNING PLUM: We cannot know for sure why President Trump renewed his attacks over the weekend on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Perhaps he is edging toward an effort to remove him. Or perhaps he is not — the White House last night insisted he isn’t — and is instead merely trying to tar the Mueller probe in the minds of his voters, in preparation for dismissing any Mueller findings of serious misconduct as illegitimate. But here’s what we do know: Most Republicans failed to seize this occasion to send a clear signal that any effort to remove Mueller will be met with serious consequences. A new report on Trump’s state of mind from the New York Times underscores why this should worry us a great deal. Relying on numerous people close to Trump, it says he decided to...

Selena Gomez Sun in Sydney Transplant Scar Evident 3/19/2018 6:00 AM PDT Selena Gomez put on a bikini and hopped on a boat in Sydney Harbor over the weekend and you can clearly see some of the scarring from her kidney transplant. Gomez soaked up the sun Sunday with some friends — and no Bieber. The scar is not located near the kidney, but Selena had complications immediately after her transplant. An artery broke and she had to get emergency surgery where doctors took a vein from her leg and created a new artery to help stabilize the overactive kidney, which left the scar on her leg. Selena was in really bad shape before the transplant, so it’s a small price for another chance at life.

NBA YoungBoy Charged with Kidnapping, Aggravated Assault … In Girlfriend Beating 3/19/2018 6:36 AM PDT EXCLUSIVE NBA YoungBoy has been grabbed by the long arm of the law, because he’s just been indicted for beating the hell out of his girlfriend … and one of the charges is kidnapping. A grand jury in Waycross, Georgia handed down the 2-count indictment for aggravated assault and kidnapping. TMZ posted video of the incident … you see YoungBoy and his GF in a hotel hallway, and he body slams her. As for the kidnapping charge … he drags her into a hotel room and that’s the basis of the charge. The girlfriend did not want to press charges, saying they were just engaged in horseplay, but people on the Grand Jury didn’t buy her story. YoungBoy was relea...

Video by CBS Sports The end came Sunday for UMBC’s men’s basketball team — and the university’s athletics Twitter feed — at the NCAA Tournament. The 16-seed that made history by beating South top seed Virginia was ousted in the second round by No. 9 Kansas State. RELATED: Men’s NCAA Tournament bracket MARCH MADNESS: Students hope win brings attention to school’s accomplishments For its part, the person running the social media account that made national headlines after Friday’s upset for its savagery was subdued, even gracious, in defeat. Well, it was fun y’all. KState may have won (50-43), but we hope to have won your hearts. — UMBC Athletics (@UMBCAthletics) March 19, 2018 Well, maybe not entirely . . . Kind of a big deal https://t.co/pauzJIK1JY — UMBC...

Click to expand Replay Video SETTINGS OFF HD HQ SD LO UP NEXT Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not necessarily represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. Kansas Jayhawks fans won’t be the only college basketball fans to loathe the purple of Kansas State this week. The ninth-seeded Wildcats sent home the NCAA tournament’s most likable Cinderella on Sunday, just two days after No. 16 seed Maryland Baltimore County pulled off the biggest upset in NCAA tournament history — sending No. 1 overall seed Virginia home Friday as the first No. 16 to beat a No. 1, and doing so with a 20-point cushion. Some of the most memorable upsets in March Madness history don’t necessarily equate to Sweet 16, Elite Eight or ...

Jared Kushner’s father met with Qatar’s finance minister three months after President Trump’s inauguration, a New York City session at which funding for a financially troubled real estate project was discussed, the company acknowledged Sunday. However, Charles Kushner said he turned down possible funding to avoid questions of a conflict of interest for his son, who had run the family company until he became Trump’s senior adviser. The elder Kushner said that the Qataris had asked for the meeting, and that he told them he couldn’t accept sovereign funds. “I was invited to a meeting,” he said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Before the meeting, Kushner Companies had decided that it was not going to accept sovereign wealth fund investments. We informed the Qatar representatives of our ...

The congressional Republican rebukes of President Trump for attacking special counsel Robert S. Mueller III were sharp, but selective: GOP lawmakers defended Mueller against the president’s tweets, although there were no indications they plan to take legislative steps to protect his probe. It has been almost eight months since lawmakers introduced a pair of bipartisan bills to prevent Trump — or any president — from being able to order the firing of a special counsel without a reason that can pass muster with a panel of three federal judges. But, in that time, support for the effort has flagged under the weight of political distractions, constitutional concerns, and substantive differences between the two proposals that have kept lawmakers from merging them into one unified bill. Most Demo...

Sen. John McCain is defending the special counsel investigating Russian election interference after a series of tweets from President Donald Trump revived chatter that the Trump may be preparing to get rid of the veteran prosecutor. The Arizona Republican wrote on Twitter on Sunday that it is “critical” Robert Mueller be allowed to complete a thorough investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election “unimpeded.” Trump’s tweets revived talk Trump may, in an attempt to end the investigation, move to have Mueller fired. But White House lawyer Ty Cobb sought late Sunday to tamp down the speculation by saying the president is not contemplating such a move.

A large storm system is moving through the Great Plains on Monday morning bringing unsettled weather from the Dakotas all the way to the southeastern United States. Yesterday, more than three dozen damaging storm reports were made, most of them in east-central Texas where hail was larger than a baseball. There were also two reported tornadoes in the Texas panhandle and winds of 60 mph or greater in eastern Texas. On the northern side of the storm, heavy snow fell around Denver, with anywhere from 5 to 10 inches overnight in the metro area. The storm system is moving east Monday, and is now stretching from the Northern Plains to the Gulf Coast. To the north, snow is falling in the Dakotas while tornado warnings have been issued for part of the Florida panhandle. The storm system will move f...